Tim Burton Quotes

I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

I love anything that's sort of surreal and with fantasy.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

I have been wandering with Alice in Wonderland and been having tea with the Mad Hatter.

One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

That's a depressing and practical thought," Sam said. "I'd rather it was something magical.

Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have a dream or what you're gonna dream about.

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.

I kind of write in my own little world.